Behavior change in Outlook Avast Add In SPAM Deleted instead of put in Junk Mail

vagabondh · 2017-03-27T15:52:43.000Z

I had a strange change in my Outlook Avast add-in behavior that worried me until I figured it out.

When I clicked to select an email as SPAM the “normal” behavior in my experience was for the item to be moved to the Junk Email folder.
Without apparent cause, this changed to deleting the item permanently without recourse. It was not moved to the Deleted Items folder and it was not in Junk Email either, but it was gone.

After some investigation and experimentation, I was trying to run Outlook as Administrator when I saw the Avast options to “Run In Sandbox”. It was set to Always run in Sandbox, though I don’t recall setting that (I may have). Once I switched that “off” the expected “normal” functioning returned.

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Alikhan · 2017-03-27T16:20:13.000Z

vagabondh post:1:

I was trying to run Outlook as Administrator when I saw the Avast options to “Run In Sandbox”. It was set to Always run in Sandbox, though I don’t recall setting that (I may have). Once I switched that “off” the expected “normal” functioning returned.

Always run in Sandbox is a setting which isn’t enabled by default. You must have accidentally enabled always run in sandbox. It happens quite easily.

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